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Well, I stayed pretty calm about it as I'm definitely not allowing her to burst my Christmas bubble. Let us just move on and learn from this, shall we? Starting from this entry, expect to see my watermark right smack in the middle of the photo. Let me know what you think. :)
Tomorrow, November 3, Starbucks Coffee Philippines will officially launch their much-awaited Christmas campaign. I've showed you the beautiful 2012 planner and now I'd like to share with you a couple of drinks and food items that you definitely have to watch out for as they're all very delicious! :)
If there's one thing I'm excited about when it comes to celebrating Christmas in Starbucks, it would definitely be their drinks. This is definitely the time when I would indulge in a cup of Toffee Nut Frappuccino while doing my Christmas shopping or while catching up with friends over the holiday. I love the buttery toffee flavor that reminds me of my Kongkong who shares the same love over anything caramel-y. I'm glad that the Toffee Nut continues to be a regular mainstay in their Christmas drink line-up together with the Peppermint Mocha.
A new addition this year is the Cranberry White Chocolate Mocha which got positive feedback from our group. I love the sweet cranberry drizzle that surprisingly complemented the strong espresso-based drink. Looks like I'll be having more of this in the coming weeks. Similar to the other two Christmas drinks, this is also available Frappuccino style.
As for the food, there will be 15 new items this Christmas but let me share with you my top 8 picks for this season:
Sun-dried Tomato and Basil Roll (Php. 50) - A perfect breakfast choice as it's served warm where the crust is crunchy but the inside stays very soft and chewy. It was so good that I would love to have this with cream cheese or perhaps with a bowl of my favorite soup. The sun-dried tomato and basil made the bread so flavorful that it reminds me of eating a Foccacia bread.
Glazed Ham with Apricot Spread on Multi-grain Bread (Php. 140) - What's Christmas without Ham? I love munching into this delicious sandwich filled with sweet ham, cheese and apricot spread. The bread was also very good as it has bits of sesame seeds and a lot more. Definitely a winner in my book!
Turkey & Chicken with Apple Stuffing on Whole Wheat Walnut Bread (Php. 140) - Meanwhile, Paul loves the chunky texture that he gets as he bit into the Turkey and Chicken sandwich. He said this is perfect for Thanksgiving where you get a slice of turkey, apple stuffing and cranberry spread in one sandwich!
White Chocolate Cranberry Cookie (Php. 55) - While enjoying the Cranberry White Chocolate Mocha, have a piece of warm cookie that's so soft that it melts in your mouth! Yum!
Texas Chicken BBQ Wrap (Php. 140) - Kids will love this wrap as it tastes so much like a Chicken BBQ pizza! Wanting to cut down on carbs, I removed the flour tortilla and decided to try the inside filling and I was still very satisfied. This wrap is filled with fried chicken breast fillet covered in barbecue sauce and topped with grated cheese and sour cream. Make sure to ask your friendly barista to warm this up for you to complete your experience.
Triple Decker Cheesecake with Snickers® (Php. 130/slice and Php 1250/whole) - I love munching on a bar of Snickers thus how can I resist when given a slice of 3-layer cheesecake loaded with my favorite candy bar? It has a peanut-chocolate base with chocolate fudge icing and topped with roasted chopped peanuts. I had to share this with Paul though as the cake was a bit too sweet when consumed solo.
S'mores (Php. 70) - As the Christmas season sets in, expect to bring out your jackets as the air becomes more chilly. Thus, the need to snuggle up by the fireplace with a warm cup of mocha topped with lots of marshmallow seems to be a good plan. While it's not common to have a fireplace or to build a bonfire here in Manila, you can still enjoy a delicious dessert made of marshmallow and chocolate in Starbucks Coffee by trying a plate of S'mores. Buttery graham crust filled with marshmallow cream and topped with chocolate ganache. This will surely bring back wonderful childhood memories.
Chocolate Toffee Nut Loaf (Php. 55/slice) - I love my Toffee Nut Frappuccino and to go with it, I enjoy having a slice of the Chocolate Toffee Nut Loaf which is so moist and chocolate-y rich! My niece will surely enjoy picking out the toffee candy on top of this loaf.
There are 7 more food items to watch out for. Namely, Pecan Butterscotch Twirl, Hazelnut Stollen Bread, Warm Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake, Chicken Alfredo Turnover, Peppermint Brownie, Gingerbread Cookie and the delicious Molten Chocolate Cake.
Contest Time! : Christmas is...
Lately, I started an album in Facebook called "Happiness is..." I plan to post various photos of things/people/events that has put a smile on my face. My first photo was that of a Hello Kitty pink car that I saw driving along EDSA. This was on a Friday afternoon where I was on my way back to the office after a presentation with a client.
It's November and we have a little more than a month to go before Christmas. Can you already feel the Christmas spirit?
I am raffling off a lot of items to spread the Christmas cheer!
Here's what you can win:
One winner will bring home a Starbucks Coffee on the Go backpack.
One lucky reader will receive a Starbucks 2012 Planner! - Poplar Design
Contest mechanics:
1) Like the Official Frannywanny.com Facebook Page.
2) Share this entry via Facebook:
- Click on the Share button on top of this post. A blank box will pop out and and type this: "@Frannywanny Christmas for me is _____________________. @(tag 3 friends)" After you're typed in your entry, click Send.
example: @Frannywanny Christmas for me is seeing bright lanterns on the street. @Friend1 @Friend2 @Friend 3
Note: Please make sure that your profile is set to public (everyone) or this won't appear on my Facebook page.
3) Leave a message at my comment box with the URL link of your message complete with your name and email address. Failure to do so automatically disqualifies the entry.
4) This contest is open to all readers in the Philippines.
5) One entry per person only!
6) This contest will run from November 2 - 26, 2011. I will be notifying the winner via email and will also announce it here in my blog. The prizes will be delivered to the winners too.
7) Winners will be chosen via Electronic Raffle.
*photos by: Paul Ang (food) and Starbucks Coffee Philippines (drink)
That's it!! :) Happy Holidays everyone!! :)

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Why starting Stephenson at PG could be a smart move for the Pacers' future
The more I think about it, the more I'm leaning toward this opinion: I want to see more of Lance Stephenson.
He played well in summer league. We all know that by now. He's 6-5 with a 6-11 wingspan. He's a guy who has been groomed to play in the NBA since he was, oh, probably 14. So let's find out what he can do.
Not next year.
Not three years down the road. (Seriously, how much more substantial information do we have about Brandon Rush that we didn't have two years ago with all this in-and-out-of-the-lineup silliness?)
My thinking on Stephenson goes something along these lines:
First, this season means next to nothing to the Pacers. Their whole Plan of Patience is to have salary cap space next summer. So if they win 20, 30 or 40 games this year, it changes little, except one potential item we'll get to in a bit.
Second, Larry Bird keeps saying he wants a point guard. The Pacers have Stephenson, their second-round pick; A.J. Price, last year's second-round pick; and T.J. Ford on the roster, with Earl Watson out there as a free agent.
The only real unknown in that group is Stephenson. Next year, neither Ford nor Price is going to bring much of anything as trade bait especially since Ford will be a free agent, so there is no reason to showcase them. Coach Jim O'Brien already has ticked off Ford to no end, and Price is coming along, but if it doesn't work out with a second-round pick, so be it. Which brings us back to Stephenson.
Third, Stephenson has been groomed to be an NBA player since he hit high school. I was at the ABCD camp in New Jersey the summer of 2005 when this kid who hadn't entered high school went toe to toe with O.J. Mayo, who at the time had the rep as the best prep guard in the nation.
Stephenson lost that battle to the guy a little more than three years older, but that was the biggest buzz from the entire camp. Lance Stephenson had the gall to go after O.J.? For real?
I remember talking to some of the New York basketball mafia about Stephenson that week and the stories were amazing. So were the hangers-on, which, unfortunately, also often is part of the New York basketball scene.
"That kid's in trouble," one NYC insider told me at the time.
"Why," I asked.
"Look at the shoes around him," I was told. "Lot of money in those shoes. Lot of money around that kid."
So many questions surrounded Stephenson for several reasons that many colleges backed away from recruiting him, and he ended up at Cincinnati for a year. Everyone who knew the people in his ear knew he was going pro after one year, regardless of how that year went.
So I don't put much stock in what he did or didn't do at Cincinnati. That was never the focus of the whole exercise. This - the NBA - was. So let's see what he's got for this level. I'm not saying he's better than Ford or Price at this point. A clear case could be made he's not. I'm saying, given the Pacers circumstances, it's almost a perfect storm of an opportunity to find out what he can do given some real time.
Think about it. How much buzz would there be if, say in January, the rookie point guard is playing well? Think that wouldn't get a fan base excited?
Fourth - and this is where it really gets fun - if he flops and flat out can't get it done, fine. Now we know. Or if he's starting to get it but the Pacers are losing, they can say something like, 'Hey, we want him to get experience and we're going to accept the losses. We're not going to yank him in and out the way we did with Rush and Roy Hibbert.'
Either way, there is an enormous potential benefit to massive losses because if there was ever a year for a team needing a point guard to totally tank it, this is it.
In the draft next year should be three freshman who look like starting NBA point guards for years to come in Josh Selby, Kyrie Irving and Brandon Knight. All should be top-10 picks. Selby already has said he plans to go pro after his one year in college.
The 6-2 Selby is going to Kansas, the 6-2 Irving to Duke, the 6-3 Knight to Kentucky. And that's in addition to current collegians such as Connecticut's Kemba Walker, who could play their way up the board.
Fall into the 2011 lottery and your chances of getting one of those main three should be pretty good. That could be your point guard of the future.
And it gives you multiple chances in the draft instead of one in the idiotic idea proposed by some that Kentucky freshman John Wall was the guy the Pacers should go after. Wall was going to be the No. 1 pick. The Pacers had no way of getting the No. 1 pick. What did the Pacers and Wall ever have to do with one another? Nothing.
However, if you fall into the lottery next year with three future starting point guards on the board, your chances of getting one of them are pretty good.
Then you've got your point guard of the future, plenty of salary cap space, potential additional trade bait in Stephenson and your back-up point guard of the future in Price.
It's a win-win.
If Stephenson is good, Pacers fans celebrate, they found their point guard of the future and have a ton of cap space.
If Stephenson is bad, Pacers fans celebrate, they're in the lottery and have a real chance at Irving, Selby or Knight and a ton of cap space.
Could make the summer of 2011 pretty good for the Pacers.
(Mike Wells will be out of the office the week of July 18-24.)


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Whenever I think about making a major purchase – anything that might require a credit check, I brace myself for responding to rumors that I am dead.
Eleven years ago after my sister Ellen-Marie died, I wrote letters to all of her creditors informing them of the sad news. Things seemed to be going smoothly until I got a very sympathetic note from American Express expressing their condolences that Elaine Ray had died.
No, no, no, no, I wrote them back. I am very much alive. Although my own card, and card activity, have ever lapsed, I am periodically asked to prove that I indeed am still among the living.
It's a good thing I don't live in Texas.
Two weeks ago a federal court struck down a law requiring voters in Texas to have a government issued ID in order to vote. Texas was among several states, including my home state of Pennsylvania, that have passed voter ID laws in the name of stamping out fraud, even though they have come up short when it comes to providing data that significant voter fraud exists.
The real reason for these laws is as cynical as the Jim Crow era tests that required blacks who dared to show up at the polls to "count" the jelly beans in a jar before they could vote. It's about power. Power in the hands of black people, Latinos, young people — anyone likely to vote to reelect President Barack Obama.
Pennsylvania's Republican House majority leader said it best when he ran down a list of his party's accomplishments: "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to Win the state of Pennsylvania. Done."
But back to dead people. Texas' voter ID law may have been struck down, but its efforts to suppress the vote appear alive and well. With just weeks before the presidential election, they are purging their rolls of dead voters. No problem with that, except that many of the people who've been purged are not dead.
Terry Collins, a high school nurse in Houston, told National Public Radio that she received a letter indicating that she was dead and noted that other blacks she knew who also weren't dead had received letters too. When she tried for three days to call to correct the information, she was left on hold for an hour each time.
"We're required by law to maintain a clean and accurate voter registration list, and we're attempting to comply with that mandate," Rich Parsons, a spokesman for the Texas secretary of state, told NPR. He added that people who got the letter who are not dead should just show up at the polls and they will be allowed to vote.
If you believe that, I have a jar of jelly beans that will test your math skills.
Still, we didn't let the forces of disenfranchisement win then, and we can't let them win now.
I've seen this before, I've lived this before. Too many people struggled, suffered and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote," Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia) said at the Democratic National Convention. "And we have come too far together to ever turn back. We must march to the polls like never ever before."


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STOCKHOLM — Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theory on how the most basic building blocks of the universe acquire mass, eventually forming the world we know today.
Their concept was confirmed last year by the discovery of the so-called Higgs particle, also known as the Higgs boson, at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
"I am overwhelmed to receive this award and thank the Royal Swedish Academy," the 84-year-old Higgs said in a statement released by the University of Edinburgh, where he is a professor emeritus. "I hope this recognition of fundamental science will help raise awareness of the value of blue-sky research."
"Of course I'm happy," the 80-year-old Englert told reporters, thanking all those who helped him in his research.
Asked whether he could have imagined getting a Nobel Prize when he started the research 50 years ago, he said no.
"You don't work thinking to get the Nobel Prize, that's not how you work," Englert said. "(Still) we had the impression that we were doing something that was important, that would later on be used by other researchers."
The announcement, which was widely expected, was delayed an hour, which is highly unusual. The academy gave no immediate reason, other than saying on Twitter that it was "still in session." The academy decides the winners in a majority vote on the day of the announcement.
Staffan Normark, the permanent secretary of the academy, said the academy had tried to reach Higgs on Tuesday but "all the numbers we tried he did not answer." He wouldn't say if that's why the announcement was delayed.
By just awarding the men behind the theoretical discovery of the particle, the prize committee avoided the tricky issue of picking someone at the CERN laboratory to share the award. Thousands of scientists were involved in the experiments that confirmed the particle's existence last year.
The Nobel award can only be split by three people.
Academy member Ulf Danielsson noted that the prize citation also honored the work done at CERN, even though it didn't single out any of its scientists.
"This is a giant discovery, it means the final building block in the so-called standard model for particle physics has been put in place, so it marks a milestone in the history of physics," Danielsson said.
Englert and Higgs theorized about the existence of the particle in the 1960s to provide an answer to a riddle: why matter has mass. The tiny particle, they believed, acts like molasses on snow — causing other basic building blocks of nature to stick together, slow down and form atoms.
But decades would pass before scientists at CERN were able to confirm its existence in July 2012. To find it, they had to build a $10 billion collider in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.
"I'm thrilled that this year's Nobel Prize has gone to particle physics," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. He added that the discovery of the particle at CERN last year "marks the culmination of decades of intellectual effort by many people around the world."
In the CERN cafeteria, applause broke out and champagne bottles popped. Heuer gave a brief speech and told everyone to applaud themselves for their work.
The Higgs particle solved a problem that physicists had puzzled over for some time: how did matter form shortly after the Big Bang, eventually leading to the universe as we know it today? The explanation scientists came up with centers on the idea of an invisible field that pervades the universe. As particles travel through the field, they are slowed down like a ball rolling through molasses. If this is the case then it should be possible to detect a type of particle, dubbed the Higgs boson, where the fields clump together.
Yet finding the particle — often referred to as the "God particle" — required teams of thousands of scientists and mountains of data from trillions of colliding protons in the world's biggest atom smasher — CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The device produces energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.
Only about one collision per trillion will produce one of the Higgs bosons in the collider, and it took CERN some time after the discovery of a new "Higgs-like" boson to decide that the particle was, in fact, very much like the Higgs boson expected in the original formulation, rather than a kind of variant.
The phrase "God particle" was coined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, but it's disliked by most physicists because it connotes the supernatural. Lederman said later that the phrase — mostly used by laymen as an easier way of explaining the theory — was really meant to convey that he felt it was the "goddamn particle," because it proved so elusive.
Michael Turner, president of the American Physical Society, an organization of physicists, said the Higgs particle captured the imagination of the public.
"If you're a physicist, you can't get in a taxi anywhere in the world without having the driver ask you about the Higgs particle," said Turner, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago.
He said the finding of the Higgs completed the standard model, which is a basic picture of how physics operates on Earth. But beyond that, he said, it represents the first in a class of particles that scientists think played a role in shaping the universe. That means it points the way to tackling mysteries like the nature of so-called dark energy and dark matter.
The physics prize was the second of this year's Nobel awards to be announced. On Monday, the Nobel Prize in medicine was given to American scientists James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof for discoveries about how key substances are moved around within cells.
The prizes, established by Swedish industrialist and Alfred Nobel, will be handed out on Dec. 10 — the anniversary of his death in 1896. Each prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor ($1.2 million).
Associated Press writers John Heilprin in Geneva, Frank Jordans in Berlin and Malcolm Ritter in New York contributed to this report.


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Holmes column: Alcohol education: Serve up the truth
We Americans have lively disagreements about lots of things, but when it comes to kids, booze and drugs, our rich civic conversation turns anemic. We scrunch our faces into a middle-aged scowl, wag our fingers at the youngsters and say ``don't go near that stuff.''
Then we pour ourselves an adult refreshment.
That's why it's good to hear from John M. McCardell, a retired college president who is not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom.
``Consider this,'' McCardell told the Daily News. ``Alcohol education is now mandated only after you've been convicted of DUI. What genius thought that one up? You get convicted and then you have to take alcohol education?
``We're spending a lot of money and a lot of man-hours too late.''
McCardell knows something about education and about underage drinking. As the retired president of Middlebury College, he knows that if parents and teachers don't teach young people about drinking, their buddies at the frat house will.
Parents can teach kids about the pleasures of moderation, the distinctions between wines, and how to use alcohol as a stress-reducer and social lubricant.
The buddies at the frat house will teach them that drinking isn't about taste or sociability, it's about getting hammered. They will teach drinking games designed to get as many kids as drunk as possible. They will show them how to use a funnel and tube to put large quantities of beer into the stomach without having to bother with swallowing.
Which lessons would you rather your children learn?
But try to teach your kids and their friends how to drink responsibly, and you can find yourself in jail. The campus bars that once provided a setting for mature, supervised drinking have all been closed down. Young people are drinking as much as ever, but laws and policies force them to do it in places where no adult can go.
``Zero tolerance'' policies at colleges often backfire. Students caught drinking in the dorms are forced to move off-campus for a semester - to apartments where students can, and do, drink all they want.
McCardell's solution cuts against the prohibitionist grain that has run through alcohol and drug policies for 30 years. He says we should lower the drinking age to 18, but treat it like driving. At 18, young people could legally drink at home with their parents. After they graduated from high school, they could apply for a state ``drinking license'' once they had completed an alcohol education course.
Unlike too much of what passes for drug education, such a course should be built on facts, not propaganda. It should cover practical knowledge, stressing the difference between drug use and drug abuse, instead of ``just say no.''
Drug education should incorporate what science has learned about the neurochemistry of addiction, much of which goes against the conventional wisdom. Addiction is ``a disease of the brain,'' not a character flaw, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told the nation's leading drug researchers at their annual meeting this week. Addiction has a genetic component - if your parents are alcoholics, you will likely have the same tendency - but is triggered as well by early experiences.
Researchers say the earlier young people start drinking or using drugs, especially binge drinking or heavy drug use, the greater the tendency toward addiction. They also debunk the myth that alcohol abuse is less prevalent in Europe, where even children drink wine with dinner and the drinking age is lower. Binge drinking among teenagers in Britain, France and Germany is a bigger problem than in the U.S.
That doesn't necessarily argue against McCardell's initiative, which he is promoting through an organization named ``Choose Responsibility.'' Allowing moderate drinking by 18- to 21-year-olds would likely be less damaging to young people than the unsupervised binge drinking that is now the norm. But the research reinforces the importance of keeping alcohol away from children younger than 18.
The brain isn't fully developed until age 23, neuroscientists have learned, which explains a lot about our children's behavior. While their brains are still developing, they are more easily damaged by drug abuse. Aaron White, who studies adolescent alcohol use at Duke University Medical Center, challenges another bit of conventional wisdom while arguing against lowering the drinking age:
``If you're going to do that, I suggest you teach them to roll joints,'' he told Newsweek, ``because the science is clear that alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana.''
Indeed. Cannabis is less addictive than alcohol, and less damaging to your body. A lethal dose of alcohol is 10 times its effective dose - one way scientists measure a drug's dangerousness - but there is no known lethal dose of marijuana.
McCardell may be a lonely voice advocating for a more realistic approach to teens and drinking, but at least he has a voice. America has an estimated 25 million marijuana users, but no respected voice has emerged to argue in favor of regulated cannabis, sold in liquor stores and used moderately by responsible adults.
I'm sure there are educators doing their best to teach fact-based drug and alcohol courses in some school health classes, including lessons in peer pressure, self-esteem and mental health, which are all critical pieces of the substance abuse puzzle. There are surely sex education teachers who go beyond abstinence and birth control to cover other aspects of sex that are equally important, such as intimacy, abusive relationships, gender identity, body image and sex in the media.
But those who would teach young people what they really need to know about sex and drugs are hampered by laws, politics and culture that confuse telling the truth with ``sending a message.'' Children need sermons, to be sure, but slogans that pretend that maturity and understanding arrive magically on your 21st birthday do more harm than good.
Today's teens cannot escape exposure to alcohol, drugs and sex. They would be much better served if they could learn the truth about these things from adults instead of being encouraged by laws and attitudes to hide from them.
Rick Holmes is opinion editor for the MetroWest Daily News. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Hot Versus Cold Forging
What variables should I consider when choosing between gear that is hot forged versus cold forged?
Hot and cold forging are different means to a similar end, like starting a fire with whiskey versus gasoline. A manufacturer will choose one process over the other for economic reasons, or because one process more efficiently renders the product.
Forging is simply the working of metal by plastic deformation, and it can be done while the metal is hot, cold, or even warm. If you watched the swordsmith hammer your samurai sword into shape, you have a grasp of what forging is all about, although in the case of climbing gear, it is a bit more complicated than that.
Do not confuse forging with machining, which is when you shape metal by removing material, usually by drilling, sawing or milling. Machining is a slow and expensive process reserved for items that must be precisely built, such as cam lobes and crankshafts. Forging is also different from casting, where you pour molten material into a mold. Casting is cheap and can produce a complicated shape, one that would require numerous machining operations, in just one step. But, because casting randomly aligns the molecules, cast goods typically aren't as strong as forged ones. Iron and aluminum patio furniture, lawn jockeys and tin soldiers are often cast. Few, if any, pieces of climbing pro are cast, but the process is common for ascender cams and ice-axe heads.
Hot forging involves heating the metal, then shaping it. Usually, a machine press smashes the hot metal in a die, which might also be heated. Because the metal is hot, it is easy to move around, allowing for more elaborate shapes than cold forging. Hot forging is common for harder metals such as steel, that would be difficult to shape when cold. Some of the more sophisticated carabiners and most belay devices are hot forged. Depending on the metal and the degree to which it was heated, the forging process itself might suffice to temper, or strengthen, the material. Usually, the product is additionally heat treated after it is hot forged.
Cold forging is done when the metal, usually aluminum, which is soft and easy to work with, is cold. Cold forging is typically less expensive than hot forging, produces a precision product that requires little finish work, and is often used for symmetrical items such as carabiners. To cold forge a carabiner, aluminum bar stock is bent to shape, then smashed in a die to refine the shape. Because soft, non-heat-treated aluminum is weak, the carabiner is heat treated to strengthen it.
In a practical sense, it doesn't matter how a piece of gear is manufactured, excellent examples of hot- and cold-forged equipment abound. More important are price, strength and function. So just buy what you like. Got it?
This Gear Guy question appeared in Rock and Ice issue 156 (January 2007).
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Saskatoon healthcare workers launch petition for safer parking
The Service Employees International Union West (SEIU-West), which represents some Saskatoon healthcare workers, has launched a petition calling for safer parking.
"They want safe parking, they want well-lit parking, they want accessible parking," said SEIU's president Barbara Cape. "We want to partner with every single health care worker who's affected by this."
In December, a healthcare worker was assaulted blocks away from RUH on her way to work.
Cape says many workers at Saskatoon's hospitals and health care facilities have to park in residential areas. The union has concerns because many areas are not well lit, especially when employees get off late or head in for an early shift.
"Can't we work together to find a park and ride or a shuttle system that makes it just a little bit safer to make it from your car to your workplace so that you can provide care?"
The petition is open to all healthcare workers — including doctors, registered nurses and pharmacists, says Cape.
"We're going to talk with the Health Authority, we're going to talk with the (provincial) government, we're going to talk with the city we're going to talk with transit, because, this is not an insurmountable problem. We just need to have some political will to get it done," she said.
The petition has over 300 signatures so far.
In response to the launch of the petition, Health Minister Paul Merriman says his ministry is looking at security issues at Saskatchewan's hospitals.
"We've had some issues there, specifically at the University Hospital, also at the General Hospital in Regina and at St. Paul's," said Merriman.
"We're continuing to look at, and making sure security is there and is available," he said. "We do want to make sure our staff is safe coming to and going to the hospital(s)."
Currently, the petition only includes Saskatoon, but Cape says it could up to Moose Jaw and other locations that have expressed similar concerns.
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== Custom Actions ==
== Custom Actions ==
The standard means to create a new subtopic is a bit painful at the moment: click on Topic creation tool, then diagram, name with in-place editor, click Subtopic link creation tool, draw link from parent to subtopic. Ideally, we'd like to simply use a right-click menu option on a selected Topic and choose "Create Subtopic" or better yet, press the Insert key (or
The standard means to create a new subtopic is a bit painful at the moment: click on Topic creation tool, then diagram, name with in-place editor, click Subtopic link creation tool, draw link from parent to subtopic. Ideally, we'd like to simply use a right-click menu option on a selected Topic and choose "Create Subtopic" or better yet, press the Insert key (or ) and have the new Topic created, including the link, and with the in-place editor active on the new Topic. In this section, we will explore how to accomplish just this.

Revision as of 12:12, 28 April 2006
Note: This is still very much a work in progress...
In this third part of the GMF Tutorial, we will explore some more advanced capabilities related to the tooling components, while also extending what's generated with customizations to the runtime. Specifically we will add a composite figure using the graphical definition, show how to leverage external figures, and how to use an extension plug-in to add a custom action to our diagram. A project containing the full solution set of projects for this segment is found here. Viewlets will be available after appropriate sections below to focus their content and keep them short.
New Icons
A quick way to get a new polished look for our mindmap diagram is by replacing the generated EMF icons we've seen so far with some that are more, well... distinctive ;) The easiest way to do this is to replace the GIF images found in our org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.edit/icons/full/obj16/ folder.
In case you'd like to map another image file to a palette item, say in the case of our three Relationship tools, or for our Subtopic link which has no default icon, you can modify the children of your Creation Tool elements in the mindmap.gmftool model. For example, if you delete the 'Delete Image' entry below the 'Creation Tool Subtopic' element that represents the small icon and replace it with a 'Small Icon Bundle Image' and set its Path property to platform:/plugin/org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.edit/icons/full/obj16/Subtopic.gif, it will use this icon. Of course, you'll need to provide this file or use the one found in the solution to this tutorial section.
Finally, take a look in the mindmap.genmodel for properties to set for the default wizard and diagram file icons. While you're there, you might want to change the diagram file extension from 'mindmap_diagram' to 'mmd' or something similar. Browsing the properties available in the gmfgen model is a useful exercise.
Below is an image of our diagram and palette using some new images.
Composite Figures
What we'd like to do is have an actor-style representation for our resources added to our diagram. These will be linked to their respective Topic elements, much like our relationship links between Topic elements. Also, we'd like to have the labels for our Resource figures external and display both the name and email address attribute values of the corresponding domain element.
Graphical Definition
Open up your graphical definition again and add a new Rectangle named 'ResourceFigure' to your Figure Gallery. Set its Outline property to false, along with its Fill. As you can see from the image to the right, we will be adding a series of children to the rectangle, which will act as a container for the elements that comprise our Resource figure. Specifically, right-click and add an XY Layout, and Ellipse for the head, a Polygon for the Body, and sizing elements. Rather than go through all of the gory details of these, the figure code is found below. Either paste it into your mindmap.gmfgraph in the appropriate location using a text editor, or utilize the default editor and properties view.
To our Canvas, add a new Node named ResourceNode and assign our ResourceFigure as its Figure. Also, notice the new 'BasicLabelFigure' label that is added to the Figure Gallery in the image. Create this and add a new Diagram Label 'ResourceLabel' to the Figure Gallery and Canvas respectively. Note that the Label for our Resource is not a child element of its figure. We want the label to be external, and therefore be allowed to float and be positioned wherever the user would like it.
<figures xsi:type="gmfgraph:Rectangle" name="ResourceFigure" outline="false" fill="false" lineWidth="0"> <layout xsi:type="gmfgraph:XYLayout"/> <children xsi:type="gmfgraph:Ellipse" name="Head"> <foregroundColor xsi:type="gmfgraph:RGBColor" red="220" green="220" blue="250"/> <backgroundColor xsi:type="gmfgraph:RGBColor" red="230" green="230" blue="255"/> <size x="40" y="20"/> </children> <children xsi:type="gmfgraph:Polygon" name="Body"> <foregroundColor xsi:type="gmfgraph:RGBColor" red="220" green="220" blue="250"/> <backgroundColor xsi:type="gmfgraph:RGBColor" red="230" green="230" blue="255"/> <template x="23" y="19"/> <template x="23" y="24"/> <template x="39" y="24"/> <template x="39" y="29"/> <template x="23" y="29"/> <template x="23" y="36"/> <template x="39" y="48"/> <template x="39" y="53"/> <template x="20" y="42"/> <template x="1" y="53"/> <template x="1" y="48"/> <template x="17" y="36"/> <template x="17" y="29"/> <template x="1" y="29"/> <template x="1" y="24"/> <template x="17" y="24"/> <template x="17" y="19"/> </children> <maximumSize dx="40" dy="60"/> <minimumSize dx="40" dy="60"/> <preferredSize dx="40" dy="60"/> <size x="40" y="60"/> </figures>
Tip : It's a bit tedious to add multiple template points in the manner above, so feel free to open the gmfgraph file in a text editor to make life easier. Furthermore, to get it looking right more quickly, open the generated figure class and simply modify the GEF code directly and run the editor to see how it looks. Then, move this information back into your gmfgraph model. Of course, when the WYSIWYG features of GMF become available and mature, none of this should be necessary.
Tooling Definition
We'll need a tool to add Resource nodes, so as you've done many times before, open the mindmap.gmftool model and add a new node creation tool for the Resource. Next, we'll need to add our mappings, so reopen your mindmap.gmfmap file.
Mapping Definition
First, we'll need to add a new Top Node Reference to our Mapping definition. Set the Containment Feature to our 'EReference resources' attribute of our Map class. Add a child Node Mapping element to this Top Node Reference and select our 'EClass Resource' for the Domain meta information Element property. Of course, we'll select our ResourceNode for the Diagram Node and our Resource creation tool for the palette.
Now, to add our Label Mapping as a child of the Node Mapping and set the Edit and View Pattern and corresponding features from our Resource class in the domain model. Here, we'll utilize the edit and view pattern properties of the mapping model to allow a Resource label to be displayed as 'name [email@example.com]'. To allow for the proper parsing of what's entered into the direct edit field, we will define an edit pattern for the label as '{0} : {1}' where a colon is used to separate the name and email attributes. Note that the generated plug-in code will contribute to the parserProvider extension-point, which will in turn leverages the Java MessageFormat class.
You will need to make one tweak to the generated code after you transform your mapping model to a new gmfgen model, as before. Open the newly-generated ResourceEditPart class and locate the createNodeShape() method. In this method, you will find a call to figure.setUseLocalCoordinates(false). In order for our polygon to appear in the rendered figure, you will need to set the argument to true. This should be a temporary workaround, and if you're not making changes to the figure, go ahead and add a NOT after @generated in the method comment.
Run the diagram and check the operation of the label, as well as the look of the figure. It should look similar to the one above. Resources added to the diagram are now available in the properties view for topic assignments, thread authoring, etc. To add the possibility to create links from other elements to a Resource, follow steps similar to how links are used to represent subtopics.
Using External Figures
Creating a Customization Plug-in
Although making modifications to the generated code and specifying '@generated NOT' to allow JMerge to preserve our changes works well for some customizations, it's also possible to separate other customizations (extensions) to our generated plug-in using a new plug-in...
Custom Actions
The standard means to create a new subtopic is a bit painful at the moment: click on Topic creation tool, then diagram, name with in-place editor, click Subtopic link creation tool, draw link from parent to subtopic. Ideally, we'd like to simply use a right-click menu option on a selected Topic and choose "Create Subtopic" or better yet, press the Insert key (or some combination) and have the new Topic created, including the link, and with the in-place editor active on the new Topic. In this section, we will explore how to accomplish just this.
To begin, we know that the org.eclipse.ui.bindings can be used to assign a Ctrl+I key combination to our action (as seen on the image, though for OS X). This is easily accomplished by contributing to the extension-point in our new *.diagram.custom plugin.xml file. Note that this is a simplistic example that does not declare a context, as you would probably expect to create for your diagram and potentially extend a default GMF diagram context (if one existed ;-).
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.bindings"> <key commandId="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.insertSubtopic" sequence="M1+I" schemeId="org.eclipse.ui.defaultAcceleratorConfiguration"/> </extension>
Now, for the command, we'll contribute to the org.eclipse.ui.commands extension-point, as seen below. When you run your diagram, you will see this command category and the shortcut listed in the General | Keys preference page.
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.commands"> <category name="Mindmap" description="Commands related to Mindmap diagrams." id="org.eclipse.gmf.category.mindmap"/> <command categoryId="org.eclipse.gmf.category.mindmap" description="Inserts a new subtopic" id="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.insertSubtopic" name="Insert Subtopic"> </command> </extension>
Now, for the popup menu. We'd like to have a series of potential menu items to insert elements on our diagram (i.e. subtopics, threads, etc.), so our contribution to org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus will define an 'Insert | Subtopic' menu and link it to our binding above through the defintionId:
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus"> <objectContribution adaptable="false" id="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.diagram.ui.objectContribution.TopicEditPart1" objectClass="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.diagram.edit.parts.TopicEditPart"> <menu id="MindmapInsert" label="&Insert" path="additions"> <separator name="group1"/> </menu> <action class="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.diagram.part.MindmapCreateSubtopicAction" definitionId="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.insertSubtopic" enablesFor="1" id="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.popup.MindmapCreateSubtopicActionID" label="&Subtopic" menubarPath="MindmapInsert/group1"> </action> </objectContribution> </extension>
Now, for the fun part... to define the declared MindmapCreateSubtopicAction class. To begin, we know that similar functionality exists in the connection handles feature provided by the runtime (see image below).
In this section of the tutorial, we saw how to add a composite figure, utilize external images and figures, and create a custom action contained within a new extension plug-in.


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- Front headroom: 1,003mm (39.5")
- Front hiproom: 1,308mm (51.5")
- Front legroom: 1,052mm (41.4")
- Front shoulder room: 1,392mm (54.8")
- Interior cargo volume: 470 L (17 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 1,492 L (53 cu.ft.)
- Passenger volume: 2,710L (95.7 cu.ft.)
- Rear headroom: 953mm (37.5")
- Rear hiproom: 1,146mm (45.1")
- Rear legroom: 998mm (39.3")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,336mm (52.6")
- Turning radius: 5.3m (17.5')
- Wheelbase: 2,530mm (99.6")
- Display: digital/analog
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Excellent & great fun to drive this gas-saver
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The Race to Make The Fridge of The Future
A group of 25 utilities representing a quarter of the nation's electric customers has pooled $30.7 million to hasten the commercialization of more energy-efficient, less-polluting refrigerators. The Super-Efficient Refrigerator Program (SERP) will provide incentives to a single manufacturer, to be chosen through competitive bidding, to build and distribute roughly 250,000 refrigerators that are 25-50% more efficient than comparable models built according to 1993 federal appliance efficiency standards. SERP is the first so-called Golden Carrot strategy to be launched by the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, whose founding members include Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E), the Natural Resources Defense Council, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Golden Carrot program complements federal appliance standards by supporting technological innovation that will yield large and rapid increments of efficiency exceeding those standards. Perhaps even more importantly, Golden Carrot incentives are structured to demonstrate that super efficiency is not only technically feasible, but also marketable and competitive. The goal of the program is to get more efficient refrigerators into stores sooner than would would otherwise occur, and then to rely on the market to broaden consumer demand for a superior product. Golden Carrot is designed to show that utilities can be a potent force in seeding a market transformation without having to become perpetual investors to sustain that transformation.
SERP intends to achieve this result by dispensing its incentive money, not as up-front support for research and development, but as payments for each refrigerator distributed by the manufacturer. The manufacturer is responsible for getting the super-efficient units into the retail distribution chain in each utility's service area at prices comparable to conventional units with the same features.
How much each utility invests depends on its avoided costs, on how much of its total demand-side management budget it wants to dedicate to this particular market, and on its estimate of how much saved energy its investment will buy. This last figure will not become clear until the winning bid is chosen, since the bid will set the incentive payment for each refrigerator delivered and, hence, the cost per kWh saved. Utilities are generally investing $1.50-$2.00 per residential account, according to guidelines suggested by SERP.
Each utility investor will receive a number of units proportional to its investment. The number of incentive payments--that is, of refrigerators manufactured--covered by this level of investment is estimated to be about 5-10% of total refrigerator sales in each utility's service area for each year of the program.
To ensure that member utilities get the most for their money and to spur manufacturers to shoot for big efficiency improvements for the least cost, SERP has devised a bidding system that rewards bidders for maximizing energy savings, minimizing incentive payments, and committing to a speedy delivery schedule. SERP planners anticipate incentive payments of $100-$150 per unit, amounting to 2.5cents-3.5cents per kWh saved over the life of the unit. Annual savings could be 200-400 kWh over 1993 refrigerator efficiency standards
Another selection criterion is corporate reliability. Bidders must not only have experience with the specific technologies proposed and proven ability to build and ship thousands of units, but also must have a marketing strategy, a national distribution and service network, in addition to a system for tracking sales after the super-efficient models reach the retail market.
SERP received 14 bids from manufacturers in mid-October and was scheduled to announce two semi-finalists in mid-December. (It's important to note that six major manufacturers produce all but a handful of approximately 80 brand names of refrigerators sold in the U.S.) These two contenders will then have to produce prototypes and submit final offers by May 1, 1993. SERP expects to award a contract on the following July 1. The winning bid will specify the shipping schedule, which might reasonably be expected to begin in late 1994 and continue for about two years.
How many Golden Carrot units the incentive fund will buy will depend on the unit payment established by the winning bid. However, short-term share of market is not the point. Rather, the Golden Carrot approach aims to accelerate the introduction of leading-edge technology.
Golden Carrot is intended to complement utilities' current appliance efficiency programs, said Gary Fernstrom, acting director of residential retrofit in PG&E's Energy Efficiency Services Department. Most current programs provide moderate incentives in order to effect moderate improvements, said Fernstrom, who is also chief financial officer of of SERP. Golden Carrot provides larger incentives for larger improvements targeted at a smaller segment of customers. Its intent is thus to bracket the market not covered by programs such as customer rebates, dealer incentives, and dealer education.
How much energy consumption and demand SERP saves and at what cost compared to standard rebates will hinge on the level of incentive payments and the extent to which manufacturers and retailers succeed in building demand for Golden Carrot products after utility incentive payments have ceased.
A success here will undoubtedly encourage a similar approach to other major end-uses. The Consortium is considering other market opportunities, including commercial rooftop air conditioners, microwave clothes dryers, horizontal-axis clothes washers (lower water use and higher spin speeds, meaning less drying time), and office equipment.
Readers interested in the work of the consortium and of SERP should contact Dr. Richard Harkness executive director, c/o SERP, Inc., 2856 Arden Way, Suite 200, Sacramento, CA 95825. Tel: (800) 927-3985.
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Recycling Refrigerators: Whose Responsibility? (Nelson)
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Tim Tuttle intends to give Siri and Google Now a run for their money with MindMeld, an iPad app slated to launch in the App Store this fall, with an iPhone app soon to follow. While both existing services have quickly become essential features on new smartphones, MindMeld will take the idea of a digital personal assistant a step further by making it almost prescient.
Though it will launch in the App Store under the guise of a video conferencing tool, a capability which it provides natively, MindMeld is actually an information-driven application which listens in to your conversation and attempts to understand what's being said. Once it figures out what you're talking about, MindMeld will try to create a model of the conversation's context, and from that it will attempt to locate and display relevant information from many different sources. "We're listening to the last ten minutes to predict what you need in the next ten seconds," Tuttle told Ars. "We're trying to make it so you never have to explicitly search for something you've already talked about."
Tuttle and his team began working on MindMeld with the intention of creating technology which would be considered essential for meetings, phone calls, and any other type of collaborative spoken working environment. Unlike Apple's Siri and Android's Google Now, you don't actually have to address the MindMeld agent to get any results. Instead, it is constantly listening during a call so that it can hear everything and make sure it delivers the right information based on what you're talking about. It's like having a friendly robot eavesdropping on your conversation and looking things up for you.
Before it presents anything, the MindMeld friendly robot—more properly known as the "anticipatory computing engine"—will extract information from search engines, news articles, videos, the user's social networking profiles, and even locally stored documents. It will then attempt to correlate all of that data and rank it by its importance to the conversation. For instance, if someone mentions that Becky is coming to the Bay Area and she'd like to check out wine country, MindMeld will recognize those keywords and begin to display links to wine tours and a map of the Napa Valley in real time. The idea is for the app to present you what you're about to look for before you even start looking for it, hence "anticipatory computing."
MindMeld's engine has been designed to do three things: it can decipher a multi-party conversation and pick out vital keywords from concurrent streams of dialogue in real time; it can do continuous, predictive modeling, which essentially means it listens to the conversation to understand what has already been said and what might be talked about next; and it can perform proactive information discovery based on what it's hearing so that it's constantly finding and retrieving things for you.
Though the idea of a robot constantly listening in may raise up those "big brother is watching" flags, Tuttle explains that the application only does so when all parties have explicitly allowed it. MindMeld will only process a conversation if another user has the app installed on their iOS device—it will not listen in to telephone conversations or decipher the speech of someone who has not given it specific permission.
Tuttle does foresee a few issues still looming for the product's launch. Most notably, he wants to ensure the technology works flawlessly on the backend and that the team can scale it out as the user base starts to grow. "I expect we're going to be working very hard to make sure [the launch] goes smoothly," he said.
This isn't an entirely new concept, and if MindMeld is a success, it could help shift the focus of apps like Siri and Google Now in a new direction. There's also some speculation that this technology could be married with Google Goggles, since Google's Ventures branch has reportedly backed the company behind MindMeld with $2.4 million. Regardless, it seems to be only a matter of time until technology like this becomes mainstream. As Tuttle says, if your device understands everything that you see and hear, it can use that information to better help you.